[Lexicog] Re: Dutch courage

[Benjamin Barrett]

FWIW, in Japanese, a "dutch wife" (dacchi waifu) is a blow-up sex doll. BB


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From: Leela Pienaar [mailto:L.Pienaar at ru.ac.za] 



The stereotype of the Dutchman among the English at this period was somebody
stolid, miserly, and bad-tempered, and these associations, especially the
stinginess, were linked to several phrases. Only a small number of them are
actually recorded in print from the time of the Dutch wars, most being of
eighteenth century provenance or later. But there’s nothing so long-lasting
as traditional enmity; later phrases borrowed the ideas from earlier ones,
and in any case many are certainly older than their date of first recording.

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